Sil-Pro takes full ownership of Machining Solutions

DELANO, Minn.—Sil-Pro L.L.C., a provider of contract manufacturing and engineering services to the medical device industry, has acquired Sil-Pro Machining Solutions (formerly MMI Precision), which is a provider of high precision machining to the medical, aerospace, defense and specialty equipment markets.

Sil-Pro purchased the machining solutions business from its sister company, Precision Associates Inc., and has taken sole ownership of Machining Solutions. This company said this acquisition will expand its current value-added manufacturing and full device manufacturing capabilities.

“It's more streamlined for Sil-Pro, for our medical side of things, to have a machining department or division in-house,” said Rebecca Talbot, marketing coordinator of Sil-Pro.

“It allows us to expand into orthopedics. It allows us to expand into other specialty commercial industries, such as aerospace and defense.”

In addition, by moving the machining business into Sil-Pro's Delano headquarters, it brings customers “a full value-add experience,” Talbot added.

“So they can be here for design and development, working with our programs teams and engineers, just from concept and then all the way through commercialization. We really are streamlining the process for the OEMs that may be seeking to work with Sil-Pro. We're eliminating a lot of steps along the supply chain.”

Having the machining in-house also complements the firm's in-house tooling department and current production areas, which produce silicone and plastic devices, Talbot said, along with a lot of other value-added items.

“The first year we're focusing on primarily making sure that the customers that we brought with us from MMI are satisfied, and we're servicing them,” she said.

“We're also planning on expanding more into the orthopedics realm with our machining capabilities. And then in the long term, the plan would be to also use some of those machining capabilities to start to have more of a presence in other specialty commercial industries, like aerospace and defense.”

Sil-Pro is a business to business supplier and is moving more toward full device capabilities from concept to commercialization, she added. It is the one-stop shop mentality.

“Machining Solutions is a great fit for Sil-Pro and fulfills part of the strategic plan,” Kevin Carver, president of Sil-Pro, said in a news release.

“When our core medical business in cleanroom injection molding of silicone and thermoplastics is combined with the capabilities at Machining Solutions, it immediately enhances and extends Sil-Pro's ability to better serve our customers. Enhanced capabilities like Swiss and 5 Axis machining of exotic metals and plastics coupled with automated precision machining cells, will offer more value to many current and future projects,” he said.

“We already feature on-site design and development and in-house tooling and automation departments; the addition of medical machining demonstrates our commitment to providing our customers with complete manufacturing solutions for their medical device programs.”

Sil-Pro's in-house machining department will offer custom machined parts for the medical industry, while continuing to serve existing aerospace and defense customers and grow future customer relationships within the aerospace and defense markets, the company said.